It’s time to watch headlines for earnings news again: Third quarter financial reports will start rolling in over the next few weeks, and that means plenty of volatility… and plenty of opportunities!

The good news for Q3 is that Wall Street expects the overall S&P 500 Index to see roughly 29% in profit growth. That would be the third straight quarter of 25%-plus earnings growth for the index!

The bad news is that earnings estimates have been rising leading up to the start of this earnings reporting season… which could create a high bar for stocks to clear.

In fact, several leading tech companies like Micron (MU) and Broadcom (AVGO) recently posted results that beat forecasts… but both companies saw stock prices drop anyway.

Such is the fickle nature of Wall Street expectations…

This is a sign that there could be plenty of volatile reactions in store for individual stocks over the next four to six weeks, as earnings reports are announced and Wall Street digests the news.

It’s going to be a tough time for short-term traders, but there’s no need to panic: TradeSmith has you covered with our exclusive Earnings Season Pass tools, which give you an advanced look at whether a company is likely to meet, beat or fall short of expectations!

Your All-Access Pass to Earnings Season Profit Potential

Last week, we covered Earnings Season Pass by discussing my colleagues Andy and Landon Swan alongside their exclusive Social Heat Scores – which collect Main Street consumer buzz and translate it into profit opportunities, often before Wall Street takes notice.

Earnings Season Pass uses the same Social Heat insights about how well a company’s products and services are resonating with Main Street consumers, to predict whether its quarterly results could meet, beat or fall short of Wall Street forecasts.

We all know that earnings results can move stock prices – and sometimes the entire market – rapidly. Sometimes a single earnings report can shift millions or even billions of dollars in just a few minutes… leaving investors scrambling to find their footing.

That’s why Andy and Landon created an incredible tool to provide earnings season insights to everyday investors, right from the comfort of your TradeSmith Finance platform: With Earnings Season Pass, you can harness the power of real-time consumer insights to predict if a stock’s results are likely to surpass Wall Street expectations or fall short ahead of time.

Armed with this valuable data, you can plan your trades while keeping a clearer picture of which direction a stock is likely to move – and keep a valuable edge when it comes to trading the market’s reactions to earnings news!

It’s an invaluable tool during these increasingly volatile earnings reporting seasons.

Subscribers to Earnings Season Passand TradeSmith Platinum members can easily access the Earnings Season Pass Interactive Scorecard by scrolling down on their TradeSmith Finance Home Page:

Outside of earnings season, this window won’t have much data to offer. But during earnings season, you can check this tool every single week to view upcoming earnings reports in an easy-to-read calendar-based format, with all the insights you need to evaluate a stock’s possible earnings season moves.

On top of that, Earnings Season Pass tells you which stocks are likely to post positive or negative earnings surprises – and it estimates the size of those surprises, too!

Simply scroll through the scorecard to review the details of each Social Heat Score-tracked stock that is set to reporting results over the next week. You can check back each week for the latest data, to plan ahead each earnings week.

And to make things even easier, you can search by ticker for any stock you may own or have an interest in. You can also scan and sort the results to find certain earnings season trade setups by clicking on specific filters – including Trading Day, Demand Growth, Trader Strategies, and more.

Scroll through the Earnings Window by using the left or right arrows to view past earnings results from previous weeks or preview upcoming reports in the weeks ahead.

Below, you can see the detailed view of Earnings Season Pass data for Microsoft (MSFT) prior to its last earnings report in July:

You can see that MSFT was rated with a positive +34 Earnings Score – and that Earnings Season Pass suggested specific trading strategies to take advantage of, and aim to profit from, the expected post-earnings move ahead of the report’s release.

These suggestions included an Investor Strategy to potentially Add Shares of the stock prior to earnings, as well as a Trader Strategy suggesting a Coin Flip Bullish option trade.

You can hover over either strategy and click on Build Trade to see a suggested trade setup, which in this case involved a bullish option spread on MSFT.

All the key details needed to evaluate each potential earnings trade are displayed for you here, all in one convenient place.

This includes earnings announcement dates, historical performance results, and key metrics created by Andy & Landon Swan.

Here are a few of those metrics…

• The Earnings Score ranks how bullish or bearish the system is on a given stock’s earnings report. This score ranges from -100 (bearish) to +100 (bullish), where higher is better,
• Demand Growth tracks how much consumers want the product or service,
• Happiness Growth measures how pleased consumers are by the company,
• YoY Change Demand and Stock show you at a glance the year-over-year change in demand for the product or service compared to the stock price change,
• Expected Move (%) is based on option prices, and tells you how much the stock could move on earnings,
• Past 4 Moves gives you a rundown of post-earnings moves in the recent past,
• And Historical Performance shows theaccuracy of previous Earnings Season Pass predictions.

Armed with this data, investors and traders alike can quickly evaluate their trading options ahead of a stock’s potential earnings beat or miss – whether that involves trading the stock itself, or call and put options on the stock.

Mike Burnick’s Bottom Line: By harnessing the power of Main Street consumer data, Andy and Landon Swan created our unique Social Heat Scores to provide you with insights on products with growing popularity.

Earnings Season Pass translates this data into immediate profit opportunities by predicting whether a stock could beat, meet, or miss Wall Street expectations during earnings season –  and it can even help you quickly and easily build your own trades to aim for quick profits throughout the season.

Good investing,

Mike Burnick
Senior Analyst, TradeSmith

TradeSmith’s Social Heat Scores give you an edge by turning online discussion and social sentiment into actionable data, enabling you to make trades on companies before Wall Street notices just how popular they’ve become in the last quarter.

That data can offer unexpected insights when it comes to quarterly reports… and that’s why Andy and Landon Swan built Earnings Season Pass.

Earnings Season Pass takes the power of the Social Heat Score one step further each earnings season, translating Main Street data into more immediate profit opportunities – by forecasting whether a stock will beat, meet, or miss Wall Street expectations in its next report.

This earnings season, that data – and the analysis of the Swans – is going to be critical. All eyes are on the AI companies driving markets higher… and how those companies report in the coming weeks could change the trajectory of stocks for months.

It’s a topic the Swans have been focused on for months – and that’s why they went live last week with their AI Earnings event. There, the Swans briefed attendees on the list of the companies they think are about to move in the wake of the biggest AI names, and how they plan to trade them.

There’s never been a better time to get familiar with Earnings Season Pass… and now’s the time to pay attention: The next earnings season opportunity is just a week away!

Click here to learn more about Earnings Season Pass – and how you can put it to work right away.